Just curious... how far are you going into your tear down before building up?
I would put our tear down at 99%, and we are about to separate the body from the chassis and do a complete chassis up build. Does that make use the norm or the exception?
Just curious... how far are you going into your tear down before building up?
I would put our tear down at 99%, and we are about to separate the body from the chassis and do a complete chassis up build. Does that make use the norm or the exception?
You didn't fabricate your chassis from scratch? 
(just kidding)
Mine has the interior gutted right and I am removing the sound deadening and pulling the engine soon and then paint.
JoeyM wrote: You didn't build your entire car out of other people's garbage?
Fixed. 
As far as I have to.
had our Mirage down to a bare shell on a rotisserie at one point
MG Bryan wrote:JoeyM wrote: You didn't build your entire car out of other people's garbage?Fixed.
Thanks. 
We got about this far when building ours :)
Bare shell - then cut rusty metal out of bare shell.
Eventually everything but the subframes and dash were removed from my Miata. My problem was I needed to keep the car movable so I was not able to strip it all down at one time and had to work on it in stages. That made things take twice as long.
Lesson learned: leave as much of the factory primer in place as possible!
Tear down? E36 M3, i bought mine in running (barely) and driving condition, and i've been daily driving it since.
Tear down? There will be no tear down.
I MIGHT pull the motor out of it to clean up the engine bay this summer before i make the trip.
The car MIGHT get its first bath in the time i've owned it before the event, but it's not likely. It looks much better when it's in filthy "weathered warrior" status.
I took the $2011 N600 down to the absolute bare shell...and then I started cutting big holes in it. When there was only about 200 pounds left, I stopped. I don't think this is the norm OR recommended.
Bryce
Bryce- I don't think that we are too far behind you. The stripped out Lotus body shell weighs easily less than 200lbs. Then we just have the backbone chassis. It is quite an education to to take apart a Lotus. Lots of things that you want to take apart are glued together to save weight.
We are essentially done taking things out. the only things left in the interior are the steering shaft and the brackets to hold said steering shaft in place. I am leaving the factory cubby holes because the car will be driven occasionally on the street. gotta take the hideous tint off the hatch glass and then we're done stripping it. everythings out of the engine bay except the engine itself. that'll come out sooner or later. After we get the interior patched up and painted ALL the suspension is coming off, being cleaned, questionable parts replaced, and then hopefully reassembled correctly lol.
On second thought, the damn brake lines are frozen onto the master so I still haven't gotten that out of the bay either. not reusing it so I'm about to just cut the bastards out; we'll be running stainless and all replacement oem parts for braking to save budget for suspension and cool stuff.
2008
http://cam777.synthasite.com/
2009
http://paccracing.synthasite.com/1-5.php
2010
http://morris777.yolasite.com/
Argo1 wrote: Bryce- I don't think that we are too far behind you. The stripped out Lotus body shell weighs easily less than 200lbs. Then we just have the backbone chassis. It is quite an education to to take apart a Lotus. Lots of things that you want to take apart are glued together to save weight.
Chassis? Not sure what that is, on the N600 the body and the chassis are the same thing. 
Bryce
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